Rhys is well known to television audiences for his recurring roles on Nip/Tuck and 24. He was also one of the main cast members on BBC's post apocalyptic drama Survivors , in which Rhys plays Al Sadiq whose pampered, materialistic and hedonistic lifestyle is abruptly ended by a virus which he survives, but wipes out 90% of the worlds population. On Nip/Tuck, Rhys played Jude, a handsome student who became infatuated with Julia McNamara (Joely Richardson) and came to represent for her things that she could not have. On 24, in season two, Rhys played Reza Naiyeer, a middle eastern-British business man, framed by his fiancee for the terrorist plot she was involved in. Rhys received a Screen Actors Guild Ensemble Nomination for the role.